Guys carrying "bags'' in US are associated with "gays"? True

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#46
fendigal said:
A lot of the surgeons I work with here have leather messenger bags and as far as I know none are gay. I never even think of that, I know they have a lot of stuff to carry, especially the ones who take residents. We are pretty East Coast here, though not as fashion savvy as NYC.
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Haha, I work at a hospital too and it's so easy to identify the surgeons, especially plastic surgeons! They all have greased back hair and those black leather messenger/laptop cases! My friends and I joke about it all the time, we call it their cult and say this is how they find their own kind in the big crowds! And when they all get together for meetings they discuss their hair and their bags!

I actually have one of those black leather messenger cases for my laptop too but I don't take my laptop out much so I don't really use it. They're heavy though, even without the computer in it.
 
#53
Swanky said:
Luckily times have changed! One of my dearest friends is a retired S.E.A.L. and carries a bag, I don’t think there’s a connotation much anymore.
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Wasn’t there this Friends episode in which Joey starts enjoying a bag and he makes it seem like a bad habit and everyone treats him like an alien?

Yeah that has aged like milk I guess ;)
 
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#55
Put this together for a different purpose, but thought I'd share here as well, just in case there's still any doubts:

Women and their purses, amIright? Outdated gender stereotypes aside, consumers bond and identify with their handbags in a strong way. More than just offering utility by way of accessory, handbags are used to project one’s identity and individuality to the world. Different from clothes and jewelry, they aren’t worn, but carried or displayed. They communicate status, style, image, even morality depending on where they're made and what they're made out of. All this and yet nothing inherent in their design communicates gender or sex or sexual preference. Every person needs to carry things with them away from home. And finally, men don’t need cargo pants to do so.

The late 2010s saw the final move, as the cultural conscience left the term “man-bag” in the past, with only an occasional reminder of that hideous term provided by a “Friends” rerun caught on TBS watched with a boomer relative over Thanksgiving. The era of gender-neutral, truly unisex handbags is here. Male rappers like A$AP Rocky, Drake, Kanye, 2 Chainz and Jay-Z sport bags from Hermes, Goyard, Louis Vuitton, and Gucci without anyone batting an eye. As do male pop stars like Harry Styles and Travis Scott. Pharrel Williams, aside from ubiquitously wearing one in any paparazzi shot, became a spokesperson for Chanel’s bags and model for Coach bags. There’s social media influencers like @TheBirkenBoy and hashtags like #boyswithbags on Insta. Fashion designer Marc Jacobs has worn bags for decades at this point. Even in the manliest of all manly professions: athletes or sports stars like Christian Renaldo and David Beckham have handbag collections that probably make their wives jealous (yes, both are heterosexuals wearing handbags).

This sea-change is reflected universally by every fashion house’s runway show—there is literally no style differentiation between male and female bag releases. The 2022 runway shows for Gucci, Hermes, Coach and Prada saw the same bags being used in the women’s runway as the men’s. Every single male model for Fendi was styled with a bag. Every. Single. One. The same purses shown for the women’s lines appeared in the men’s, and are intended to be purchased by both female and male consumers alike. Other fashion houses made only minor tweaks to differentiate a woman’s bag release from the menswear version, i.e. Chanel and Dior made adjustments to the bag size or strap width and nothing else. It makes good business sense: by including both sexes in their handbag target demo, designers doubled their potential customer base overnight. However, unlike previous attempts at this, the public was finally ready to open their minds, and their wallets---errrgh, I mean their WOCs—in support of this very significant shift.

Just look how natural it looks:​

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